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Joe Raedle/Getty Images (PENSACOLA, Fla.) — A NASA astronaut who experienced a “medical issue” following the successful Space X Crew-8 mission has been released from the hospital, NASA officials said Saturday. “After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida, the NASA astronaut was released and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in […]

NASA (NEW YORK) — A NASA astronaut has broken the record for the longest space mission in U.S. history. Frank Rubio, 47, who has been aboard the International Space Station since September 2022 — more than 355 days — broke on Monday the previous record held by retired NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei. Rubio is not […]